(a)Figure 12.3 Grew’s illustrations of “attires” (stamens). A. Seminiform; note the exaggerated
thickness of the filaments. B. Florid. (Left) Disk flower of marigold consisting of an outer corolla
of fused petals, an inner sheath of fused stamens, which Grew likened to a foreskin, and the stigma
visible at the top of the sheath. (Right) The stigma and style of the marigold pistil removed from
the sheath of stamens. Note that Grew’s florid attire actually refers to the style and stigma of the
disk flower. Thus, his phallic interpretation of its appearance is not only fanciful, it is based on an
erroneous attribution of sex. (From Grew’s The Anatomy of Plants [1682], figures 56 and 60.)